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Posted on 12/12/2008 6:37:12 AM PST by Zakeet
After the selection of a largely centrist economic team, liberals have been asking when President-elect Obama would give them a seat at the table. Well, now we know, and Americans should strap themselves in. Mr. Obama is stocking his energy shop with the greenest of greens who want to move fast on a very aggressive climate agenda. Here come the carbon busters.
It's striking that the moderate in this bunch may be Steven Chu, who has reportedly been tapped as Energy Secretary. Though a political unknown, Mr. Chu is the respected director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where the 1997 Nobel physics laureate has spent the last four years chasing a breakthrough in advanced biofuels, solar and other high-tech ventures.
Mr. Chu's special passion is climate change, and he favors putting a price on greenhouse emissions. The federal energy portfolio, though, is dominated by nuclear issues such as waste disposal and maintaining the U.S. weapons stockpile, with a side of basic research. On the latter, Mr. Chu co-chaired a blue-ribbon panel last year that called for doubling energy research spending.
Congress will see that and raise. But we trust Mr. Chu already knows that the Bush Administration has devoted some $43.3 billion to climate-specific science and R&D since 2001, including the annual $650 million budget of the Berkeley Lab, which is funded through the Energy Department. We trust, too, that an expert of his sophistication understands not only the promise of clean tech but its real practical limits.
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Carbon Busters? It is the most common element in the universe! Our bodies are made up of....oh, never mind..
Only when the idiots who put Obama into office see their utility bills skyrocket will they realize how stupid they’ve been. That, and the hit that is sure to come on their W2’s.
Then again, probably not...after all they wanted “change”.
WOW! I’m REALLY looking forward to the next four years!!!!
“Ms. Browner will use the threat of brute regulatory force as a political bludgeon if Capitol Hill declines to inflict some carbon tax on voters in the midst of a recession.”
I wonder if 0 can match Pelosie’s approval rating?
I don’t know that consumers will see their utility bills rise in absolute terms, since, 18 hours per day of rotating blackouts will give a net 0% raise on a 400% rate increase.
Excellent.
Sad, but true.
Morons. These people have never made a payroll or sold a dime’s worth of stuff in their lives.
What in hell is the point of bailing out the auto industry when these enviro-wacko advisers will sink it anyway? I can see it now....a green car that costs $40,000, does not go over 60 mph, is so small they can just bury you in it when you are crushed in a car wreck and cannot be driven in a strong wind?
Europe Puts Hurdles in Obama’s Climate Path
By Gregor Peter Schmitz in Washington D.C.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,595644,00.html
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231-Page Report Now Available
Scientists Continue to Debunk ?Consensus? in 2008 Only 52 Scientists Participated in UN IPCC Summary
Proponents of man-made global warming like to note how the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the American Meteorological Society (AMS) have issued statements endorsing the so-called “consensus” view that man is driving global warming. But both the NAS and AMS never allowed member scientists to directly vote on these climate statements. Essentially, only two dozen or so members on the governing boards of these institutions produced the “consensus” statements. This report gives a voice to the rank-and-file scientists who were shut out of the process.
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=2674e64f-802a-23ad-490b-bd9faf4dcdb7
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Steven Chu, In an interview with The Post last year, said that the cost of electricity was “anomalously low” in the United States, that a cap-and-trade approach to limiting greenhouse gases “is an absolutely non-partisan issue,”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/11/AR2008121103380.html
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James Hansen wants Obama to just come out and admit that it is an energy tax that he wants to impose on Americans and stop beating around the bushes by calling it ?cap and trade?. He says that Americans will ?understand?: Some on Left Join Fight to Expose the Lie that is Cap and Trade
http://blog.heritage.org/2008/12/05/some-on-left-join-fight-to-expose-the-lie-that-is-cap-and-trade/
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Dr. Higgs reminds us as to just who is, and who is not qualified to speak on various scientific and economic matters:
Peer Review, Publication in Top Journals, Scientific Consensus, and So Forth
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1963
Robert Higgs
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Google news search: Cizik resigns - Result:
http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn&q=cizik%20resigns
Cizik (a global warming kook) resigns
World Magazine, NC - 2 hours ago
Longtime evangelical leader in Washington Richard Cizik resigned from the National Association of Evangelicals Wednesday night, Christianity Today reports, ...
Cizik resigns as top Evangelical lobbyist (Rod) Beliefnet.com
Richard Cizik Resigns from the National Association of Evangelicals ChristianityToday.com
Richard Cizik Resigns from National Association of Evangelicals Christian News Wire (press release)
The Associated Press - Dallas Morning News
all 161 news articles ?
Top evangelical resigns after backing gay unions
Herald News Daily, ND - 3 hours ago
Richard Cizik (SIGH-zik) quit Thursday as the group?s representative in Washington. Cizik had already made enemies of some evangelical leaders because of ...YHOO
“Only when the idiots who put Obama into office see their utility bills skyrocket will they realize how stupid they’ve been. ..” ~ EyeGuy
See this excerpt from my post in #10 above:
Steven Chu, In an interview with The Post last year, said that the cost of electricity was “anomalously low” in the United States, that a cap-and-trade approach to limiting greenhouse gases “is an absolutely non-partisan issue,”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/11/AR2008121103380.html
Our Rural Electric Co-op has already warned of near term rolling brownouts.
When people have no heat, no water on demand, their toilets don’t work, their septic tanks back up because the pumps are not powered, the grocery deliveries are late and also limited, there is a shortage of produce, no one can afford to run a freezer and the hospitals are shut down for hours at a time while they search for generator fuel, the zerOids will all be happy because their lifestyles are now sustainable.
These idiots want to live in uncomfortable poverty because it somehow satisfies their desire for martyrdom.
Or we could just use better gasoline that’s cheaper to make and burns cleanly and completely, resulting in higher mileage.
No, that's actually a toss-up between hydrogen and stupidity.
(And I didn't make that up.)
“These people have never made a payroll or sold a dime’s worth of stuff in their lives.”
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Yes.
It looks like the true growth area in American employment, this movement towards a “service economy” that is supposed to provide us solace, consists in large measure of government growth.
The crucially important, productive segment of the economy is going to be inspected, lawyered, studied, reported-on, regulated and harrassed to death by no-talents in an ever-expanding, multi-layered bureaucracy
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The SCOTUS decision on CO2 pretty much put a limit on the quantity of human life that the planet can sustain. Therefore, their sacrifice to martyrdom would be a welcome solution.
And the social status of the professional hit man would also become improved.
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